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small triangular- shaped spots on the margins of their inner webs ; 

 breast grey, washed with rufous ; under surface of the shoulder, flanks, 

 vent and under tail-coverts deep rufous ; irides brown. 



Total length, 8^ inches ; bill, J ; wing, 5 ; tail, 4^ ; tarsi, |. 



Hab. Port Essiugton, Australia. 



Remark. — Nearly allied to Cuculus insperatus. 



Sphenceacus gramineus. Sphen. vittd supra oculos albd; corpore 

 superne hrunneo; medid plumarum saturate brunned ; subtus griseo ; 

 lateribus crissoque cervinis ; medid parte singulce plumce pectoris 

 lined minimd saturate brunned ornatd. 

 Stripe over the eye white ; all the upper surface brown, the cen- 

 tres of the feathers being dark brown ; secondaries brownish black, 

 margined with buff ; tail pale reddish brown, with dark brown shafts ; 

 under surface grey, passing into buff^ on the flanks and vent ; each 

 feather of the breast with a very minute line of dark brown down the 

 centre ; bill and tarsi fleshy brown. 



Total length, 5 J inches ; bill, J ; wing, 2| ; tail, 2| ; tarsi, j. 

 Hab. Van Diemen's Land and the southern coast of Australia. 



Pachycephala glaucura. Pack, capite, loris, spatio infra oculos, 



et lata macula semilunari trans pectus saturate nigris ; guld, intra 



maculam nigram, albd; nucha posterior e , lined angustd apud latera 



pectoris pone seynilunam nigram, et corpore inferiore fiavis ; caudd 



grised ; tectricibus caudce in/erioribus albis vel subjlavis. 



Head, lores, space beneath the eye and a broad crescent-shaped 



mark from the latter across the breast deep black ; throat within the 



black, white ; back of the neck, a narrow line down each side of the 



chest, behind the black crescent, and the under surface yellow ; back 



and wing-coverts yellowish olive ; wings dark slate-colour, margined 



with grey ; tail entirely grey ; under tail-coverts white, or very 



slightly washed with yellow ; irides reddish brown ; bill black ; feet 



dark brown. 



Total length, 7 inches ; bill, ^ ; wing, 4 ; tail, 3 J ; tarsi, 1 . 

 Hab. Van Diemen's Land. 



Nearly allied to Pachycephala gutturalis, but distinguished by a 

 shorter bill and by the colouring of the tail, which is entirely grey. 



Cysticola campestris. Cyst, capite ferrugineo-rubro, dorso tecw 

 tricibusque alarum brunneo-griseis ; singulis plumis corporis supe^ 

 rioris fascid longitudinali saturate brunned ornatis ; ca^dd rufo-^ 

 brunned, plumis duabus mediis latd macula nigrd juxta apices ; 

 corpore subtus pallide cervino. 

 Head rusty red ; back and wing- coverts brownish grey, all the 

 feathers of the upper surface with a broad stripe of dark brown down 

 the centre ; wings blackish brown, the primaries margined externally 

 with rusty red, and the secondaries edged all round with brownish 

 grey ; tail reddish brown, all but the two centre feathers with a large 

 spot of black near the tip ; all the under surface pale buff'. 

 Total length, 5| inches ; bill, ^ ; wing, 2| ; tail, 2| ; tarsi, |, 

 Hab. Australia. 



Remark. — For the loan of this new species I am indebted to th^ 

 kindness of H. E, St^-ickl^nd, Esq. 



